Despite spending nearly 50% more on healthcare per capita than other high-spending nations, the United States public health ...

An estimated 3.4 billion people—43% of the world population—had a condition affecting the nervous system in 2021, leading to ...

For years, medical experts have defined obesity primarily based on body mass index, which measures stored fat by calculating height and weight, to determine a person’s health risks. Major public ...

The surge in the “medical freedom” movement has thrust the tension between individual liberty and public health into the ...

Through this project, team members uncovered five lessons on how to transform a national public health database: Making sure ...

In 2016, ahead of the US presidential election, the National Academy of Medicine launched the strategic initiative Vital Directions for Health and Health Care—a series of papers on critical areas of ...

Withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) diminishes the influence of the U.S. on global health, and leaves the ...

The Lancet, a global medical journal that works with academics to identify issues in public health, hosted a Commission on ...

Instead of using the controversial body mass index, or BMI, to assess weight, an international group of scientists proposes ...

Laws and policies prohibiting the discussion of what the first Trump administration in 2020 labeled “divisive concepts” ...

BMI has long been considered a flawed measure that can over-diagnose or underdiagnose obesity, which is currently defined as ...

A group of experts from around the world are proposing an alternative way of defining clinical obesity, eschewing the ...